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JR's Blog: WM30 Week, JR in New Orleans, RINGSIDE coming to Toronto, Ross Report Podcast Guests, Michael Cole, OU Sooners, Fox Sports Next Week

Posted: Mar 30th 2014 By: Jim Ross

Beautiful day in Norman, Oklahoma and I hope your weekend is going well. Let's refrain from burning any more daylight....

Big week coming up with travel to NOLA after recording a Ross Report Podcast for airing in a few weeks with ESPN anchor Robert Flores, a life long wrestling fan from the Houston Wrestling days.

RINGSIDE: An Evening with Jim Ross is this Thursday night at the House of Blues in the French Quarter in New Orleans and tickets are available at the door the day of the show or in advance and at ticketmaster.com. Two shows starting at 6:30 and 9:30 pm. If you're coming to WM30 or live in the area I hope that you will try and stop by and see me.

We're doing another RINGSIDE show in Toronto on Friday May 9 at the Danforth Music Hall and tickets for the show go on sale THIS TUESDAY in Toronto at the box office of the Music Hall and via ticketmaster.ca. It's one show only and it's the night before the ROH-New Japan show in TO. VIP Meet and Greet tickets will go fast and are limited. We will h ave the meet and Greet before the show on the Friday May 9 event.

Thanks for the great feedback on this week's Ross Report with Lita aka Amy Dumas. Next week my podcast guest will be DDP Diamond Dallas Page who I suspect will induct Jake Roberts at the 2014 WWE Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony the night before WM30. That's not a conformation but my personal assumption. Without question DDP impacted the lives of both Jake and Scott Hall in a major, life saving way.

Feels strange... and makes me feel older...that so many fans are positively responding to my work on the WWE Network in the pre WWE days as so many fans have never seen those particular events. Some fans did not even know that I was in the wrestling biz prior to coming to WWE in 1993.

I, too, am enjoying the WWE Network and love the classic content in particular.

http://www.wweshop.com is having a 30% off sale for a limited time on JR's products. Stock up for the grilling season.

Great lineup of guests coming to the Ross Report podcast via @PodcastOne including, the aforementioned Robert Flores, Jim Cornette, Gail Kim, Shawn Michaels, Bill Goldberg, ESPN's Michelle Beadle and Eric Bischoff, among others.

The next two installments of our History of WrestleMania series will be posted on foxsports.com this week. We received amazing response on the first one and I think that you will like parts 2 and 3.

WWE has invited me to attend the WWE Hall of Fame next Saturday night in New Orleans. I'm going to endeavor to attend. Grat night for some very deserving performers.

Some seemed surprised that I applauded @MichaelCole work in WWE recently on the Q&A's here. Cole is without question the hardest working on air talent in WWE and his job has become so multi faceted that it exceeds the boundaries of being a play by play man. I'm not even sure that WWE calls it play by play any longer but nonetheless Michael does a helluva job steering a diverse ship on 5 hours of prime time TV for WWE.

Speaking of Q&A's, they are updated here on the site now.

Follow me on Twitter as this week should be rather eventful. I'll keep you apprised at @JRsBBQ.

Enjoyed watching my Sooners practice Saturday morning at the stadium. High expectations are laying on the teams shoulders and I am looking forward to OU having a terrific season and plan on attending every game, home and away....black hat and all.

Boomer Sooner!

J.R. @JRsBBQ